Word: scenting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Wild grapes scent the sunny brake...
...this is only one case. We have all of us been as badly duped, though in some other way. I have not forgotten the noble tar with matted hair, who "had layed in the water thirty-six hours" (though his breath had such a West-Indian scent about it that I was inclined to believe he had told but half the truth), and wanted money to relieve a companion who had been there some hours longer. But after I had given him something to relieve his companion's sad circumstances, I had the mournful satisfaction of seeing said companion himself...